Remote Sensing for Environment and Sustainability Lab

Research

The Remote sensIng for envirOnment and Sustainability (RIOS) laboratory is headed by Prof. G. Moser at the Savona Campus of the University of Genoa and framed within the Methods and Systems for Signal Processing and Recognition operational unit of the Department of Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications Engineering, and Naval Architecture (DITEN).
The research activity of the lab focuses on the development of advanced machine learning, pattern recognition, and image analysis methods for information extraction from satellite or aerial remote sensing data, in applications to environment, sustainability, and renewable energies.
The main methodological research topics are:

• Remote sensing image classification and semantic segmentation
• Bio/geophysical parameter estimation from remote sensing data
• Multitemporal remote sensing image analysis and change detection

Technology transfer is also a primary goal. The developed algorithms are designed so that they are easy to use at the end-user level, in spite of the complexity of the machine learning and image processing methodologies behind. Strong focus is devoted to accuracy, reliability, computational efficiency, and compliance with the requirements of real-world applications.

People

	Gabriele Moser, Fellow IEEE Full Professor of Telecommunications RIOS Lab Head gabriele.moser@unige.it
Gabriele Moser received the Laurea (M.Sc. equivalent) degree in telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in space sciences and engineering from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He is a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Genoa. His research activity is focused on machine learning and image processing methodologies for remote sensing and energy applications. He is author or co-author or more than 200 papers in international scientific journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. Since 2001, he has been cooperating with the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition for Remote Sensing (IPRS) Lab, University of Genoa. He has been the head of the RIOS Lab since 2013. In 2004, he was a Visiting Student with the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Sophia Antipolis, France, Ariana research team. In 2016, he was Visiting Professor at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, DYNAFOR Lab, France. Since 2012, he has been an External Collaborator at INRIA, Ayin and Ayana research teams. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters since 2008. He was an Area Editor of Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL) from 2015 to 2018, an Associate Editor of PRL from 2011 to 2015, and a Guest Editor of the 2015 special issue of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine. He coordinated the Image Analysis and Data Fusion Technical Committee (IADF TC) of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, as Chair from 2013 to 2015 and as Co-Chair from 2015 to 2017. He was Publication Co-Chair and Theme Coordinator of all invited sessions of the 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2015). He was Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE/ISPRS "EarthVision 2015 - Looking from above: When Earth observation meets vision" workshop at CVPR 2015 and Co-Organizer of the IEEE/ISPRS "EarthVision 2017 - Large scale computer vision for remote sensing imagery" at CVPR 2017. He received the Best Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing, the Interactive Symposium Paper Award at IEEE IGARSS 2016, and the "Alessandro e Rinaldo Viviani 2002" master thesis award issued by the Italian Electrical and Electronic Association. Since 2019, he has been the Head of the M.Sc. program in Engineering for Natural Risk Management at the University of Genoa. From 2021 to 2023, he is a member of the national committee for the national scientific qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, ASN) in the disciplinary field 09/F2 Telecommunications.
	Sebastiano B. Serpico, Fellow IEEE Full Professor of Telecommunications sebastiano.serpico@unige.it
Sebastiano B. Serpico received the Laurea (M.S.) degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the University of Genoa, Italy. He is a Full Professor of Telecommunications at the Polytechnic School of the University of Genoa. He is also the Head of the IPRS Lab at DITEN. His current research interests include pattern recognition for remote sensing images and biomedical images. He is also the President of the IANUA - The School for higher education of the University of Genoa. He was the Chairman of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Information and Communication Technologies (ISICT) from 2003 to 2019. He has been the Project Manager of numerous research projects and an Evaluator of project proposals for various programs of the European Union, the Italian Space Agency, and the Italian Ministry of Education and Research. He has authored or coauthored over 200 scientific articles published in journals and conference proceedings. He received the Best Paper Award at the 2010 IEEE Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS). He was a Guest Editor of two special issues of TGRS regarding the analysis of hyperspectral image data (July 2001 issue) and recent advances in techniques for analysis of remotely sensed data (March 2005), and of a special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE on remote sensing of natural disasters. From 1998 to 2002, he was the Chairman of the SPIE/EUROPTO series of conferences on signal and image processing for remote sensing. He was the Co-Chair of the 2015 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS, Milan, Italy, 2015). He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Ph.D. Students

• Martina Pastorino
• Alice La Fata

Former Members

• Dr. Ihsen Hedhli
• Dr. Andrea De Giorgi
• Dr. David Solarna
• Dr. Luca Maggiolo

A Few Projects

• RETURN, Natural, man-made and environmental risks, funded within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) (Next Generation EU), jointly conducted by IPRS and RIOS labs, 2022-2025. Project coordinator: University of Naples, Italy. Local coordinator for the DITEN department: Prof. G. Moser
• ESA CCI+ HRLC, Climate change initiative extension Phase 1 - New essential climate variables - High resolution land cover, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), jointly conducted by IPRS and RIOS labs, 2018-2022. Project coordinator: Prof. L. Bruzzone, University of Trento, Italy. Local coordinator for the University of Genoa: Prof. G. Moser
• Establishing national environmental information system to be used as a reference tool to monitor and analyze the Environment in Iraq, funded by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), 2018-2022. Project coordinator: CIMA Foundation. Local coordinator for the University of Genoa: Prof. G. Moser
• PRISMA_Learn, Advanced machine learning techniques for PRISMA mission data fusion and image analysis, funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) , jointly conducted by IPRS and RIOS labs, 2021-2022. Project coordinator: Prof. S. B. Serpico
• MultiBigSARData, Semi-automatic information extraction from time series of multifrequency and multimission SAR data, funded by ASI, jointly conducted by IPRS and RIOS labs, 2021-2022. Project coordinator: Prof. Paolo Gamba, University of Pavia, Italy. Local coordinator for the University of Genoa: Prof. S. B. Serpico
• TIAMO, IoT technologies for the marine environment, jointly conducted by IPRS and RIOS labs, funded by the Liguria Region (European Regional Development Fund, ERDF), 2018-2020. Project coordinator: SITEM S.r.l., Genoa. Local coordinator for the University of Genoa: Prof. G. Moser
• CEOS-DRM, Committee on Earth Observation Satellites - Disaster risk management, funded by ASI, 2018-2019. Project coordinator: CIMA Foundation, Savona. Local coordinator for the University of Genoa: Prof. G. Moser
• ENDORSE, Energy downstream services - Providing energy components for GMES, funded by the European Commission (EC, FP7), jointly conducted by IPRS and RIOS labs, 2011-2013. Project coordinator: Prof. L. Wald, Mines ParisTech - Armines (France). Local coordinator for the University of Genoa: Prof. S. B. Serpico
• OPERA, Civil protection from floods, funded by ASI in cooperation with the Italian Department of Civil Protection, 2007-2010. The permanent scientists of the DITEN department of the University of Genoa involved in OPERA are currently with the IPRS, RIOS, and NUMIP labs. Project coordinator: COS(OT) Consortium, Savona Campus. Local coordinator for the University of Genoa: Prof. S. B. Serpico
• PROSCENIO Program, funded by the Italian Department of Civil Protection, 2005-2008. The permanent scientists of the DITEN department of the University of Genoa involved in PROSCENIO are currently with the IPRS and RIOS labs. Project coordinator: Prof. F. Siccardi, CIMA Foundation. Local coordinator for the University of Genoa: Prof. S. B. Serpico
• URBIS, Urban land recycling information services for sustainable cities, funded by EC (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Program) and jointly conducted by IPRS and RIOS, 2014-2017. Project coordinator: GISAT S.R.O., Prague, Czech Republic. Local coordinator for the University of Genoa: Prof. S. B. Serpico

International Scientific Collaborations

• Prof. Mihai Datcu, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR, German Aerospace Center), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
• Prof. Josiane Zerubia, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Sophia Antipolis, France
• Prof. Jon A. Benediktsson, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Prof. Gregoire Mercier, Telecom Bretagne - Institut Mines-Telecom, Brest, France
• Prof. William Emery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
• Dr. Peijun Li, Peking University, Beijing, P. R. China
• Prof. Torbjorn Eltoft, University of Tromso, Norway
• Dr. Stian N. Anfinsen, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre and University of Tromso, Norway
• Prof. Jacqueline Le Moigne, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
• Dr. Devis Tuia, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• Dr. Fabio Pacifici, Maxar Technologies , CO, USA
• Dr. Mathieu Fauvel, Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere (CESBIO), Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique de Toulouse (ENSAT), France
• Dr. Matthew D. Cross, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
• Dr. Vladimir A. Krylov, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Prof. Florence Tupin, Telecom Paris, France

Teaching

For the list of the current courses, visit Prof. Moser and Prof. Serpico's pages.
For more info on contents, bibliography, and lecture notes log into AulaWeb.

Publications

For a list of the latest journal papers, visit here the IRIS data base.

Contacts

Prof. Gabriele Moser
Savona University Campus, Via Magliotto 2, 17100 Savona, Italy
gabriele.moser@unige.it
Phone: +39 019 219 45135, +39 010 335 2190
Fax: +39 010 335 2134